Eric Morecambe Quotes

I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.

Eric Morecambe

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• I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Media

• I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Years
  • Old
  • Crew

• On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Love
  • Help

• I was not an easy kid.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Easy
  • Kid

• My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Time
  • Real
  • Hero

• In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Rights
  • TV
  • Formula One

• It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

  

  Quintilian
  • Words
  • Child
  • First

• Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Slavery
  • United States
  • Cuba

• It is light that defeats the dark.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Light
  • Dark

• This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.

  

  Condoleezza Rice

• There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit to that model.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Model

• Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words. I'm so powerful on stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Different
  • Words
  • Powerful

• In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Cooking

• I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Life

• We are quite different: I'm relaxed, and I get ready for races really late, whereas Jonny is really organised and punctual. I like to lead from the front in the run, whereas Jonny might hold back. Maybe it's because I'm the older brother, but I don't think there is a mental block that stops Jonny doing the same. I just think I'm a bit more gung-ho.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • Different
  • Brother

• The proliferation of mobile broadband networks combined with local area hot spots is bringing the dream of seamless and ubiquitous connectivity closer to reality.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Dream
  • Reality

• I just don't live my life in a world where I am not feeling my best, and feeling my best is feeling sexy.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

  

  Epicurus
  • Justice

• There have been a lot of challenges, but I'm still standing on my own, and it's quite an achievement knowing that I own my own business and created my own success through hard work and vision.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • Work
  • Business
  • Success

• Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Way
  • Looks
  • Regret

• The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

  

  John Strachan
  • Death
  • Fall
  • Present

• Einstein said that 'the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.' So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

  

  Leonard Bernstein
  • Music
  • Why
  • Experience

• I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.

  

  Eric Morecambe
  • Regret
  • Bliss
  • Lifetimes